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Birthday astrology

Born on May 21.

Choose your birth year to explore the Sun on this date. The position below uses a reference time of noon Universal Time, not your personal birth time.

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1900 to 2026. This lookup does not save birth details.

May 21, 2025 · 12:00 UT

Sun in Gemini

0°41′ Gemini

Close to a sign change

A sign transition falls within a day of this UT date. Your local birth time may fall on either side. Enter the time and birthplace to calculate your placement.

The Sun on May 21, year by year

These positions are all calculated for 12:00 UT. The degree changes between years, even when the sign stays the same.

May 21 at noon Universal Time · tropical zodiac
YearSun signDegree
2024Gemini0°55′
2025, selected yearGemini0°41′
2026Gemini0°27′

Positions are shown to the arcminute. A birth before or after noon has a different degree. UT and your local calendar date can differ.

Closest sign change in 2025

The Sun enters Gemini on 2025-05-20 at approximately 18:55 UT.

Explore the Taurus to Gemini boundary

Reading Sun in Gemini

Sun in Gemini is associated with finding purpose through learning and exchanging ideas. Explaining a subject to someone else can help you discover your own position. Curiosity becomes harder to use when every new question interrupts unfinished work.

Gemini is mutable air. Mutable describes adapting to changing information; air concerns thought and exchange. The Sun brings purpose into that process: comparing possibilities becomes part of developing a voice.

Element
Air
Mode
Mutable
Traditional ruler
Mercury

Keeping several explanations available can improve a discussion. It can also postpone a decision that needs a clear answer. The interpretive question is when another question adds information and when enough is known to act.

Read the full Sun in Gemini guide

This lesson follows the noon reference position. Confirm your personal Sun sign before applying it to your chart.

The same birthday can produce different charts

The Moon and other planets move independently of the Sun. People born on May 21 in different years can have different Moon signs and planetary aspects.

Birth time and location also change the Ascendant and houses. Astriel uses Placidus: the Sun's house follows its position between calculated cusps. Its zodiac sign alone cannot supply a house number.

If the birth time is unknown, choose that option in the calculator. A date crossing a sign boundary can leave the Sun sign unresolved; houses remain unavailable.

Reference time and calculation method

Noon Universal Time is a shared comparison time for these public tables. It is never saved as a birth time. Modern civil UTC stays close to UT; historical dates use the engine's universal-time convention.

Sun positions use Astronomy Engine 2.1.19, the tropical zodiac and the apparent geocentric ecliptic of date. Ingress times use the same adapter and are rounded estimates. Displayed minutes are not an accuracy guarantee.

A calendar date alone does not establish a personality, a Moon sign or a life-path number. The sign lesson describes an astrological convention. No biography or celebrity birth record is inferred.

Read methods and verification limits · Understand sign boundaries